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What type of plants are you interested in growing? This poll is closed. |
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| Perennials! |
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142 | 20.91% |
| Annuals! |
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30 | 4.42% |
| Woody plants! |
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62 | 9.13% |
| Succulent plants! |
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171 | 25.18% |
| Tropical plants! |
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60 | 8.84% |
| Non-vascular plants are the best! |
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31 | 4.57% |
| Screw you, I'd rather eat them! |
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183 | 26.95% |
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Eeyo posted:Any recommendation for some flowers that would grow well on an East facing balcony? Something that won't mind only ~4-6 hours of direct sun a day. I can't believe I didn't jump on this earlier. If you're looking specially for color rather than flowers, there are a million varieties of Japanese Maple that will work for you. What size of plants are you looking for? Ground or pots? Any particular colors you like?
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May 2, 2019 18:46
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Ya, a Japanese Maple could be a good choice although that depends on the size of the balcony.
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May 2, 2019 22:45
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That’s interesting, but my problem would be getting a container big enough that I could keep out during the winter. I’ve already got a few pots, but they’re just terra cotta and I’d think they’d break once things start to freeze.
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May 3, 2019 00:54
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Eeyo posted:That’s interesting, but my problem would be getting a container big enough that I could keep out during the winter. I’ve already got a few pots, but they’re just terra cotta and I’d think they’d break once things start to freeze. Take your USDA zone and go two colder, tell us what that is and I can find you a few cultivars to look for. Then you’ll just need a frost resistant pot (heck, I think you could get an inexpensive plastic one if need be) and you’d be good to go. Also, any particular colors you like? ETA: If you keep them in pots, they'll stay small. Solkanar512 fucked around with this message at 14:39 on May 3, 2019 |
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May 3, 2019 06:14
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i've been doing work around my grandpa's house since he liked having lots of plants and flowers. I've got a couple just sitting in basic pots but there's a lamb's ear that I'm willing to die for. Going to Lowes or Home Depot today to make a 1x1 planter box to dust off my woodworking chops and I'm actually pretty pumped for the project. Plants are neat.
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May 3, 2019 17:04
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Any ideas of how to eradicate large amounts of English ivy? It’s all up my tree-line for my driveway starting to grow around the trees.
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May 3, 2019 18:52
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I just hack at it with a bow rake and pull up individual vines by hand. You can chop big vines at the base of trees and paint the stumps with gylphosate. It's really not that much work, and area spraying is just going to leave dead vines everywhere.
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May 3, 2019 19:03
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I'm going to try to propagate my pothos. Do I need a rooting hormone or is it really as easy as cutting a piece with enough stem to bury an inch or so deep and heavily watering?
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May 3, 2019 19:10
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Just stick a cutting in a jar of water. They love it.
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May 3, 2019 19:22
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I just hack at it with a bow rake and pull up individual vines by hand. You can chop big vines at the base of trees and paint the stumps with gylphosate. I’d rather not spray, either. I’ll probably just end up cutting it and pulling it up by hand. It’ll be a pain in the butt, though. It’s everywhere.
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May 3, 2019 19:35
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Bloody Cat Farm posted:I’d rather not spray, either. I’ll probably just end up cutting it and pulling it up by hand. It’ll be a pain in the butt, though. It’s everywhere. I've got the same problem with wintercreeper. It might surprise you how much you can remove by hand. I can clear about ten square feet in an hour, which seems like a drop in a bucket but it adds up. I try to pull it in the early spring and fall, before / after deciduous plants have leaves, because the weather's nicer and it's easier to see.
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May 3, 2019 20:28
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Solkanar512 posted:Take your USDA zone and go two colder, tell us what that is and I can find you a few cultivars to look for. Then you’ll just need a frost resistant pot (heck, I think you could get an inexpensive plastic one if need be) and you’d be good to go. I'm near chicago, so it'd be ~5-2 = 3. It's 3rd floor balcony so it would definitely get some cold winds in the winter. I may not need another plant now anyway. I had cold stratified some partridge peas in April, and I put them in my container a few weeks ago, but I had given up since nothing popped up. It looks like I got something coming up now, so hopefully it's them and they just needed to be ignored a little! I also impulse purchased some moonflower seeds, which may not work very well in a container, but I'll at least try.
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May 4, 2019 00:05
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I was wandering around the Home Depot garden section and saw a big section of rose bushes and couldnt stop thinking of that King of the Hill episode. I call it a Ruby, My Dear. But I might as well call it Sendin Ya Home Cryin To Yo Momma.
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May 4, 2019 23:55
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I am seeing little tiny brown and black ants on my tree now that it has lots of big leaves and I don’t know whether or not I should be concerned about this.
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May 5, 2019 03:04
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I. M. Gei posted:I am seeing little tiny brown and black ants on my tree now that it has lots of big leaves and I don’t know whether or not I should be concerned about this. Check the leaves for aphids. Ants on plants are often farming aphids.
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May 5, 2019 06:28
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elgarbo posted:Check the leaves for aphids. Ants on plants are often farming aphids. So far the ants are the only bugs I’ve seen on the tree at all, but I’ll take a closer look today.
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May 5, 2019 14:56
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I. M. Gei posted:I am seeing little tiny brown and black ants on my tree now that it has lots of big leaves and I don’t know whether or not I should be concerned about this. You should not be; ants are all over high sugar fruiting trees and perennials like peonies all the time for that sweet sap and do no harm Your posts in this thread really own to me bc the mounting enthusiasm reminds me of my own relatively recent change from sapling newbie into Plant Motherfucker And from that perspective let me tell you that the best realization I ever had was that plants are mean as hell and will absolutely survive your bullshit as long as you give them a fighting chance in the beginning and you’ve done that
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May 5, 2019 20:20
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I went through the same Tree Fretting when I planted a live oak way down in the property. Really wanted it to succeed even though we’re on the cusp of its preferred zone and just clay bullshit, no sand Made it through multi-week floods, blizzards that made it touch the ground from frost accumulation, my own dropping down entire tree upon it accidentally. Doesn’t give a poo poo, easy three feet higher than when I put him in the ground two years ago Plants are Raw imo
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May 5, 2019 20:40
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Oil of Paris posted:
Personally I prefer the term "Sap Daddy"
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May 6, 2019 04:00
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What started as buying a couple of little succulents has snowballed into a full on obsession and i probably need some help. but it's wonderful for my stress levels and I like coming home from class to see just how much more of my apartment my cucumber has claimed. My mother, who can grow anything, is thrilled with my new hobby. first off what is this?  My mother gave me him out of winter storage, thinking he's a Canna Lily. At this point we have no idea and think my dad mixed them up. Only time will tell? Secondly, how good are those little bulb water things? That you fill with water and plant in the soil? I'm watering my plants twice a day, because it's miserable in tennessee already, but my god some of them just suck water down like it's nothing. The cuke and tomato plant I understand, but I got a baby gourd I grew from a vine that just chugs that poo poo.  I mean he's growing (I started him as a seed) and doesn't look water logged or anything so I guess it's going well but it just amazes me such a little plant could suck down so much water. Also here's a couple other photos that are already outdated because I keep going to wal mart and buying poo poo. https://twitter.com/FizFashizzle/status/1124091832865050626 I bought that Carolina Jasmine thinking he would take over my entire fence, but sadly I guess they take an entire season to get going. oh and I get around 6 - 8 hours of light depending on how i move poo poo around. I face east pretty well. FizFashizzle fucked around with this message at 02:41 on May 7, 2019 |
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May 7, 2019 02:39
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FizFashizzle posted:I bought that Carolina Jasmine thinking he would take over my entire fence, but sadly I guess they take an entire season to get going. Yeah, big vines like that just need a year or so to establish their roots and build up energy. It will probably eat your fence next year.
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May 7, 2019 15:09
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Do you goons know what type of vine this is?
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May 7, 2019 17:42
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Bloody Cat Farm posted:Do you goons know what type of vine this is? Looks like it could be wintercreeper. Destroy with extreme prejudice if so.
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May 7, 2019 20:41
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Wintercreeper was my thought too. I hate it.
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May 7, 2019 20:57
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Is that the same as Wintergreen? I was thinking of planting some Wintergreen in my shady under-tree areas since it's a good winter forage crop for local wildlife... e: Brief research indicates "No", but damned if they don't look similar!  e2: And now I've realized I have a shitload of wintercreeper in my yard, too. The previous owners really loved planting invasive species, apparently... Hubis fucked around with this message at 21:22 on May 7, 2019 |
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May 7, 2019 21:13
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Holy crap. The old folks who owned this house before sure did love their invasive plants. Thanks for the help, goons.
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May 7, 2019 21:22
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First time posting ITT Is this dead?  It's meant to be an orchid.
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May 8, 2019 11:13
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Is that an offshoot that was strung up on the left long enough to turn into a mature plant, while still attached? Anyway, the bottom certainly looks dead, but the left plant could probably be pruned off (can prune off the flower stalks that are done, too) and saved. I see roots that look green and healthy
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May 8, 2019 11:54
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This is what I was thinking, hence me not throwing it out already. How do I go about pruning off the nice bits?
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May 8, 2019 12:26
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Separate the left good part from the bottom, then go about getting rid of all the dead pieces. It should be pretty self-evident; dead pieces will feel mushy/dry/hollow, live roots will be green and not mushy/dry/hollow. You can also get rid of the old flower stalk even though it's still green, because you want the plant to be focusing on building roots at the moment, not flowering. The only wild card, and something I don't know, will be if those 'air roots' (which are used to being suspended in the air) will be happy if you plant them in the normal way in an orchid mix. Up to you if you want to do a bunch of reading or youtubing to investigate suspended/air orchid maintenance, or just plant it like the original one and hope for the best.
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May 8, 2019 12:49
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Nosre posted:Separate the left good part from the bottom, then go about getting rid of all the dead pieces. It should be pretty self-evident; dead pieces will feel mushy/dry/hollow, live roots will be green and not mushy/dry/hollow.  I cut away all of the obviously dead stuff. What do you think? The roots are barely in there, I took some advice from this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_qsadrDZPA
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May 8, 2019 13:07
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A_Account posted:
Looks good to me. Hopefully it will revive a bit.
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May 8, 2019 13:42
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Looks pretty good from here, that video gives you way more detail for this situation than we can over posts. It even mentions the aerial root -> potting medium transition. Only notes are that the usual recommendation is clear pots, and the mix you're using looks pretty heavy (lots of fine particles which potentially retain too much water)
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May 8, 2019 13:49
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Nosre posted:Looks pretty good from here, that video gives you way more detail for this situation than we can over posts. It even mentions the aerial root -> potting medium transition. Most of it is rough compost but there's a fair bit of your typical stuff in there from when I repotted it. Should I space out watering even more to once every two weeks or even less?
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May 8, 2019 13:54
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If that's regular compost I'd redo it, if it was me. Orchids want specialty mixes with big chunks - notice that youtuber doesn't even use brown matter at all, just clay pebbles. If you don't have something like that on hand, you can take what you've got, put it in a strainer and blast it with water to get rid of all the fine stuff
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May 8, 2019 14:09
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Bloody Cat Farm posted:Holy crap. The old folks who owned this house before sure did love their invasive plants. They seem to love me. Year before last my back neighbour accidentally planted dog-strangling vine, my north neighbour deliberately grows mint in the ground next to the fence, the previous owner planted mahogany bugleweed for some reason... spring is a very diggy time for me.
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May 8, 2019 14:39
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Most houseplant orchids are epiphytes that grow on trees. They don't even need "soil" in the traditional sense -- just a nice place to hang out that mimics the conditions of the side of a tree. Speaking of epiphytes, I recently mounted a staghorn fern on an old wooden plaque from the thrift store. I'm gonna try to do this with some of my orchids too, because it looks really cool hanging from my plant shelf..
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May 8, 2019 14:44
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I think my tree is producing flower buds.  There’s little green circles at the bases of the leaves that are turning deep red and getting bigger. It’s fun to watch the miracle of life at work.
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May 8, 2019 23:23
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Speaking of epiphytes, I recently mounted a staghorn fern on an old wooden plaque from the thrift store. I'm gonna try to do this with some of my orchids too, because it looks really cool hanging from my plant shelf.. That’s pretty cool. Post some pics. Staghorn ferns are so cool.
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May 8, 2019 23:33
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I. M. Gei posted:I think my tree is producing flower buds. Pics     Hard to believe this thing was a bare stick when I planted it. Also when I went outside to take these, there was a kitty lying right next to the tree as if guarding it.  (The stakes will come off in a week or two, I promise)
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May 10, 2019 20:28
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